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GPA toolbar and further improvements
Dear all,

in a personal communication with Peter Gerwinsky we have
agreed on the next steps in GPA development towards the LinuxTag 2000
where the GPA is presented at the G-N-U booth.

Ontop is a 'slick' user interface according to usual stuff normal
users like to see. I know that this is a compromise in terms
of usability. Sigh, color was as well :-)

However, I have added a nice toolbar to gpa. Icons needs to be developed
still. I can check in the source to the CVS, but I would need an account.
I can send just diffs as well if someone likes to incorporate the patches
(to whom in this case?).

A toolbar might be nice for the keyring management dialog as well (replacing
the current buttons at the bottom). What do you think?

There are some problems with different window managers where the dialogs
come up minimized. Peter told me that there was a patch fixing the problem
in parts. Can I have this patch - I will do some tracing to perhaps identify
and fix the problem.

In general, what improvements do you feel most worthy for the presentation
at the LinuxTag 2000? There are only few days remaining - I'll try
my very best.

Who can develop the icons for gpa?

Cheers

Jan

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Re: GPA toolbar and further improvements [ In reply to ]
Hello!

Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
>
> in a personal communication with Peter Gerwinsky [...]

Gerwinski
~
> Ontop is a 'slick' user interface according to usual stuff normal
> users like to see. I know that this is a compromise in terms
> of usability.

That depends: As long as you can switch off the tool bar it
does not hurt power users. ;-)

> However, I have added a nice toolbar to gpa. Icons needs to be developed
> still.

> A toolbar might be nice for the keyring management dialog as well (replacing
> the current buttons at the bottom). What do you think?

In any case, I want to keep the functionality of the buttons
which allow you to do _everything_ with the keyboard without
even touching the mouse. I do not object to a tool bar in
addition, but we must not lose functionality.

> Who can develop the icons for gpa?

This evening I will meet a graphic designer. We will see ...

Greetings,

Peter
Re: GPA toolbar and further improvements [ In reply to ]
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:17:25AM +0200, Peter Gerwinski wrote:
> > in a personal communication with Peter Gerwinsky [...]
>
> Gerwinski
> ~

sorry :-)

> > Ontop is a 'slick' user interface according to usual stuff normal
> > users like to see. I know that this is a compromise in terms
> > of usability.
>
> That depends: As long as you can switch off the tool bar it
> does not hurt power users. ;-)

We must take care to not hurt power users and also novice users.
Yes, switching off is a good idea. Perhaps we should set up
two profiles, one for power users and one for the newbees.

> > A toolbar might be nice for the keyring management dialog as well (replacing
> > the current buttons at the bottom). What do you think?
>
> In any case, I want to keep the functionality of the buttons
> which allow you to do _everything_ with the keyboard without
> even touching the mouse. I do not object to a tool bar in
> addition, but we must not lose functionality.

My idea is that a menu will do the job. If the key management
matures to a tool of its own, the menu is required anyway.

> > Who can develop the icons for gpa?
>
> This evening I will meet a graphic designer. We will see ...

Good. We can also ask tigert, but he will not be able to create
them for the LinuxTag already.

We can take icons from other tools, but to mymind neither the ones
of geheimnis nor the ones of seahorse are really adequate.

Jan

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